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Feminist Review (1985) 20, 7–21. doi:10.1057/fr.1985.16
Prisonhouses
Carolyn Steedman was born in 1947 and grew up in South London. She studied history at the University of Sussex and Newnham College, Cambridge, and between 1973 and 1981 worked as a primary school teacher. She is the author of The Tidy House: Little Girls Writing (Virago, 1982) and Policing the Victorian Community (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984). She works at the University of Warwick, and is an editor of the History Workshop Journal. She was awarded the Fawcett Society Book Prize for The Tidy House in 1983.
Warm thanks to Gill Frith for reading successive drafts of this, and for discovering at the last moment, Charlotte Bronte's walking in disgust to the window of the prisonhouse.
Carolyn Steedman
